Review of Whisper of the Heart

Studio Ghibli is the place i go for anime because i know what i'll get from them, either the anime i see from them is crap, or it is amazing, (more often than not amazing) but this particular anime surprised me by being in the middle and leaving me confused. I like this anime because it depicts a lot of peoples lives, when they have or had to decide what to do with their life and what they're going to do about it. The girl decides to write a story and often says that the story is "corny" which coincidentially sums up the whole anime.I found as i watched it there were some really "corny" moments and moments where i truly felt that what she said was true, for example there was the moment where she was arguing with a guy and what he said, how he said it, his voice, and his actions made it all sound like it was either a joke to him, or like what he said wasn't geniune. On the other hand there were moments when the girl realises that her friend is persuing his dreams while she is still reading books and being a "wierdo". This motivates her in her future.

What i also like in this anime is the people, the junior high students act like average junior high students, agressive, hyper, gossipy, and prefer to stay in their own groups. But the older generation is calm, peaceful, and likeable. It is this group of people that bring out the kind girl in Shizuki that we so rarely see when she's at school or with friends. The main reason why i mention this is because it depicts how we all act, we love our grandparents and we are usually crazy and hostile with schoolmates. its like there is two of us, one for friends, one for family, and one for grandparents.

Lastly, we all at some point are deciding what to do with our lives, where to go, where to work, where to live... and everytime the question stumps us and some of us think of other people and try to see how those people got through, yet we don't actually know. this anime shows us that our dream could come true, we could go to the moon, or mars, we could invent some environmentally friendly lifestyle, if we had the education, the will, and if we put in some hard work.

All in all, i recommend this anime to people, but i'm warning you, it is a bit corny round the edges.

(wow that was a corny review lolz)